Quote Originally Posted by Watchman View Post
I'm under the impression the issue is hardly cut and dried, and that there are quite a few theories and interpretations around. I'm really just parroting the one given here (I've seen the roughly same reasoning elsewhere too, for what that matters), which seemed to me to be making a pretty good and lucid case.
Well, all I'm saying is that the EB description seems to give the impression that it is a in between a hoplite and a phalangite and can serve in the main line. However, this doesn't work in practice and doesn't seem to match up all that well with history of being light hoplites on the cheap. Its jsut a little knit pick. I guess it would make sense to use them as flak guards against cavalry. :-\